Bill fold



BILL FOLD Filed March 13, 1929 INZENTO I ATTORNEY Patented July 21, 1931 NETE@ STATES earner @Fries ABRAHAM WEINBERG, OF LNDEN, NEV JERSEY, l-lSGNORA T0 H. B. HARDENB'URG ,A

GORPORATON, OF LINDEN, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY BILL FOLD Application filed March 13, 1929. Serial No. 346,576.

My invention relates to wallets, such as are used for holding paper money, bank notes, and like objects.

The object of my invention is to provide a wallet comprising a plurality of sheets of suitable material, united at one of their longitudinal edges and at both of their outer ends to present a pocket having a superficial area approximating; that of a bank note, said sheets being foldable at a point midway their length, the material of one of said sheets being removed along the transverse folding line to provide an aperture for the reception of a finger to .facilitate the removal of the contents of the wallet.

A further object of my invention is t0 provide a wallet so constructed as to enable the removal therefrom of its contents by the use of only one hand, being for this reason particularly adapted for use by one-armed persons.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a wallet which shall be neat in appearance and shall be of a simple, strong and durable construction, inexpensive to manufacture and which can be easily manipulated.

These and other advantages, which will later appear, are accomplished by the simple and practical construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and eX- hibited in the accompanying drawings, forming part hereof, and in which:

Figure 1 represents a front elevational view of my improved bill fold, showing the method of removing the contents thereof1 by the use of only one hand,

Figure 2 represents a transverse sectional view taken on lines 2-2 of Figure 1, in the direction indicated by the arrows,

Figure 3 represents a perspective view of the wallet in its partially open position, and

Figure 4, represents a fragmentary sectional view taken on lines 4--4 of Figure 3,

looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

ln the drawings, my improved wallet is shown in its simplest form, consisting essentially of two sheets of any iiezible or other suitable wallet material 1 and 2, united at their outer ends 3-3 and at their lower longitudinal edges il, in any desired or convenient manner, as for instance by stitching or the like, providing a pocket 5 for the reception of bank notes or the like 6, the front sheet 1 of the wallet being preferably of less width than the rear sheet 2, to facilitate the insertion and removal of bank notes.

The wallet is foldable at a point 7 ap-Y proximately midway of its length and the material of sheet 2 is removed to provide a finger-receiving opening 8 through which a finger, preferably the thumb, may be inserted to push a bank note therefrom, as indicated in the various views in the drawings. t will thus be seen that l have provided a wallet of inexpensive and simple construction and operation, utilizing a minimum number of parts and one from which bank notes or bills may be readily extracted by the use of one hand only.

rlhe foregoing disclosure is to be regarded as descriptive and illustrative only, and not as restrictive or limitative of the invention, of which obviously an embodiment may be constructed including many modifications without departing from the general scope herein indicated and denoted in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A wallet made from two sheets of material, each sheet being of uniform width throughout its length, the sheets being united at their lower and outer longitudinal edges t0 present a pocket for the reception of bank notes, and being foldable midway their length, one of .said sheets being of less width than the other, whereby the upper longitudinal edge thereof will be spaced throughout its length at a uniform distance below the upper longitudinal upper edge of the other sheet, to facilitate the removal of the contents of the Wallet, and being provided, at the folding portion thereof, With a finger-receiving opening adapted to receive the thumb of a hand to facilitate the removal of the contents of the Wallet.

This specification signed this 12th day of March, 1929.

ABRAHAM WEINBERG. 

